Portable desk.



' PATENTED AUG. 11, 1903.

J. B. ELLIOTT.` PORTABLE DESK.

APPLIUATION FILED APB. s, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented August 11, 1903.

PATENT Fries.

PORTABLE DESK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 735,865, dated August 11, 1903.

Application filed April 3, 1902.

and. durable portable desk specially adapted for supporting l'totel-registers on its central portion and advertising-cards at its top and bottom.

My invention consists in the construction,

arrangement, and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, pointed outin myclaim, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is atop View of the desk, and `iiig. 2 a sectional View on a central line.

The numeral 10 designates the central portion of a fiat wooden desk that may vary in size as desired, and l2 and 13 are straight wooden edge pieces at the parallel sides of the desk, and 15 and 16 are cross-pieces that have inclined top faces rigidly xed together and to the central part l0 to be mounted on a turntable, as shown in Fig. 2, in such a manner that the desk and a hotel-register thereon can be readily rotated as required for the use of a guest in front of the table or counter and a clerk or other person behind the counter'. The wooden parts are securely fastened together by means of screws or in any suitable way. Metal plates 17 and 18, preferably nickelplated, are each provided with flanges adapted to overlie the topfand bottom edgesand ends of the cross-pieces 15 and 16 and also narrow spaces of their inclined top faces to produce borders 19 and also to cover the edges of advertising-cards 20, placed on top of the inclined faces of the Wooden cross-pieces, as shown in Fig. 2, in such a manner that the detachable metal covers will retain the detachable cards and glass covers a in place and also produce an ornamental and durable finish of the ends ofthe desk. 'lhe cross-pieces thus applied also produce shoulders across the top and bottom portion of the desk, between which a hotel-register is placed and protected When persons registertheir names and others read their names and observe the advertise- Serial No. 101,166. (No model.)

ments on the inclined top faces of thel crosspieces.

The turn-table is composed of a circular cast-metal plate 21, adapted to rest dat upon a counter, and a second plate 22, of smaller diameter. 'Each of these have coinciding circular grooves to admit balls as required to produce bail-bearings and also coinciding apertures for the passage of screws as required for fastening the ripper plate to the bottom adapted to behandled separately and atf tached and detached from the desk at pleasure and placed on top ofthe desk to facilitate packing and shipping and to economize space.

To connect the turn-table with the desk as required for practical use, place the head of the screw 23 in the aperture in the fiat bottom of the desk and then bring the screw-holes in the overlying plates into coinciding positions and drive screws through them into the wooden desk, so that the upper plate will be securely fixed to the desk and the desk and upper plate allowed to rotate jointly on the lower plate.

It is obvious the top surface of the desk may be covered with cloth or iinished in any style of art desired.` Y

Having thus described my invention and its purposesv and manner of use, its practical operation and utility will be readily understood, and what 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters'Patent, is-

A portable desk comprising a flat-bottomed wooden main portion having a cavity in the cetnter of its under side 'and cross-pieces, having inclined top faces, fixed across the top and bottom of said main portion, metal plates provided with flanges fitted on said crosspieces and a turn-table composed of two fiat plates, having coinciding circular grooves, balls roo placed in sad grooves, coinciding screw-holes and combined in' the manner set forth for the in the centers of said plates and the hole in purposes stated.

the lower plate screwthrea.ded a screw-bolt extended down through 'the aperture in the JOHN B' ELLIOTT' upper plate into the screw-seat in the lower Witnesses:

plate and'the head'of the bolt extended into SIDNEY F. CHRISTY, the cavity in the bottom of the desk, arranged THOMAS G. ORWIG. 

